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What is utility?(Arts Education from Past to Present)(poetry and utilitarianism)

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From: Arts Education Policy Review
Date: 20040701
Author:Macaulay, Thomas Babington; Peacock, Thomas Love; Shelley, Percy Bysshe

The following are excerpts from "The Four Ages of Poetry" (1820), by Thomas Love Peacock; "The Defence of Poetry" (1821), by Percy Bysshe Shelley; and "On Milton" (1826), by Thomas Babington Macaulay. Although Shelley is the main focus, the essays are arranged chronologically. Brackets indicate editorial asides; original spelling and punctuation have been maintained; the subheadings are added. All are available on various Web sites in the public domain.

I. Thomas Love Peacock

Poetry, like the world, may be said to have four ages, but in a different order: the first age of ...

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